Quote of the day
A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people, as no historical reconstruction can.
Mona Simpson

Born: June 14, 1957 (age 68)
Bio: Mona Elizabeth Simpson is an American novelist. She has written six novels and is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Known for:
- Anywhere but Here (1986)
- A regular guy (1996)
- My Hollywood (2010)
- The Lost Father (1993)
- Off Keck Road (2000)